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CAIRO — Egypt extended its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood to include burning books that it
says promote violence and ideas linked to the banned Islamist group, a local official and a
security source said.

Samia Mehrez, an official in the Red Sea province, said local authorities and the security
forces had burned “a number of Brotherhood books and literature” located at a public library in the
resort town of Hurghada.

She said the 36 books had been donated to the library during the one-year presidency of Mohammed
Morsi, who was ousted by the army last year after mass protests against his rule.

Morsi’s Brotherhood supporters have since faced a security crackdown in which thousands have
been arrested and many hundreds killed. The group’s political wing was banned yesterday.

A security source said the destroyed materials included books on bomb making and others that
compared Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna to the Prophet Mohammed and praised Turkish Prime
Minister Tayyip Erdogan.

Relations between Egypt and Turkey have soured since Morsi’s ouster. Egypt has summoned the
Turkish charge d’affaires twice in the past month to complain about comments by Erdogan deemed
insulting to the leadership in Cairo.

Former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who won presidential elections in May less than a year
after leading Morsi’s overthrow, has said the Brotherhood will cease to exist during his rule.